1 So het Abram dan uit Egipte na die Suidland opgetrek, hy met sy vrou en sy hele besitting, en Lot saam met hom.

2 En Abram was baie ryk aan vee, aan silwer en goud.

3 En hy het van plek tot plek uit die Suidland getrek tot by Bet-el, na die plek waar sy tent in die begin gestaan het, tussen Bet-el en Ai,

4 na die plek van die altaar wat hy vroeër daar gebou het. En Abram het daar die Naam van die HERE aangeroep.

5 En Lot, wat saam met Abram getrek het, het ook kleinvee en beeste en tente gehad.

6 En die land kon hulle nie dra om saam te woon nie, want hulle besittings was groot, sodat hulle nie saam kon woon nie.

7 En daar het twis ontstaan tussen die veewagters van Abram en die veewagters van Lot. Ook het die Kana„niete en Feresiete destyds in die land gewoon.

8 Toe sê Abram vir Lot: Laat daar tog geen twis wees tussen my en jou, en tussen my wagters en jou wagters nie; ons is mos broers.

9 Lê die hele land nie voor jou oop nie? Skei jou tog van my af; gaan jy links, dan sal ek regs gaan, en gaan jy regs, dan sal ek links gaan.

10 Toe slaan Lot sy oë op en sien dat die hele Jordaanstreek oral volop water het; voordat die HERE Sodom en Gomorra verwoes het, was dit in die rigting van Soar soos die tuin van die HERE, soos Egipteland.

11 En Lot het vir hom die hele Jordaanstreek gekies, en Lot het na die ooste weggetrek. So het hulle dan die een van die ander geskei.

12 Abram het bly woon in die land Kana„n, en Lot het gaan woon in die stede van die Jordaanstreek en sy tente tot by Sodom opgeslaan.

13 En die manne van Sodom was sleg en groot sondaars voor die HERE.

14 En die HERE sê vir Abram nadat Lot van hom geskei het: Slaan tog jou oë op en kyk van die plek waar jy staan, na die noorde en suide, na die ooste en weste;

15 want die hele land wat jy sien, sal Ek aan jou gee en aan jou nageslag tot in ewigheid.

16 En Ek sal jou nageslag maak soos die stof van die aarde, sodat as iemand die stof van die aarde kan tel, jou nageslag ook getel kan word.

17 Maak jou klaar, trek die land deur in sy lengte en sy breedte, want Ek sal dit aan jou gee.

18 Toe het Abram al verder tente opgeslaan en gaan woon by die terpentynbome van Mamre wat by Hebron is; en hy het daar vir die HERE 'n altaar gebou.

1 And Abram went up out of Egypt with his wife and all he had, and Lot with him, and they came in to the South.

2 Now Abram had great wealth of cattle and silver and gold.

3 And travelling on from the South, he came to Beth-el, to the place where his tent had been before, between Beth-el and Ai;

4 To the place where he had made his first altar, and there Abram gave worship to the name of the Lord.

5 And Lot, who went with him, had flocks and herds and tents;

6 So that the land was not wide enough for the two of them: their property was so great that there was not room for them together.

7 And there was an argument between the keepers of Abram's cattle and the keepers of Lot's cattle: at that time the Canaanites and Perizzites were still living in the land.

8 Then Abram said to Lot, Let there be no argument between me and you, and between my herdmen and your herdmen, for we are brothers.

9 Is not all the land before you? then let us go our separate ways: if you go to the left, I will go to the right; or if you take the right, I will go to the left.

10 And Lot, lifting up his eyes and looking an the valley of Jordan, saw that it was well watered everywhere, before the Lord had sent destruction on Sodom and Gomorrah; it was like the garden of the Lord, like the land of Egypt, on the way to Zoar.

11 So Lot took for himself all the valley of Jordan, and went to the east, and they were parted from one another.

12 Abram went on living in the land of Canaan, and Lot went to the lowland towns, moving his tent as far as Sodom.

13 Now the men of Sodom were evil, and great sinners before the Lord.

14 And the Lord had said to Abram, after Lot was parted from him, From this place where you are take a look to the north and to the south, to the east and to the west:

15 For all the land which you see I will give to you and to your seed for ever.

16 And I will make your children like the dust of the earth, so that if the dust of the earth may be numbered, then will your children be numbered.

17 Come, go through all the land from one end to the other for I will give it to you.

18 And Abram, moving his tent, came and made his living-place by the holy tree of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and made an altar there to the Lord.